Group presses DA intervention on rising retail price of onions

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An advocacy network on Monday urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) to intervene on the current upward trend on the market price of onions. Know more:

A vendor preps newly delivered onions from Nueva Ecija before selling them at the Balintawak Public Market in Quezon City in this file photo.An advocacy network on Monday urged the Department of Agriculture to intervene on the current upward trend on the market price of onions.

Moreover, Codog added that they have checked on onion farmers and most of them have already sold their produce to middlemen and traders. Furthermore, the DA recently is appealed to traders to refrain from hoarding red onions as this can lead to an artificial shortage and higher onion prices. “They should not force us to import red onions, as it is detrimental to them. We are appealing to traders to cooperate with the government,” the DA spokesperson said.

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